Magnus Linklater

Magnus Linklater CBE is a columnist on The Times of London, and its former Scotland Editor. He was Editor of The Scotsman from January 1988 until July 1994, and has held a number of senior journalistic appoitments in British newspapers over the last 40 years, including the Evening Standard, Sunday Times, Observer, and the London Daily News, which he edited. A former chairman of the Scottish Arts Council, he is a past president, and now honorary president, of the Saltire Society, chairman of the Horsecross Arts Company in Perth, and, for the last 20 years, has chaired the Little Sparta Trust, which manages the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay’s garden in Lanarkshire. He is the author of several books on current affairs and Scottish history. He lives in Perthshire.